tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post1584854830077189069..comments2024-03-19T11:50:56.991+05:30Comments on nanopolitan: Drunk on Kakodkar Kool AidAbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-63980852054139786752012-08-07T20:30:19.204+05:302012-08-07T20:30:19.204+05:30@S -- if "society" is bankrolling the un...@S -- if "society" is bankrolling the university, of course the university "owes" <i>something</i> back. Seems like an obvious natural law. The issue is who decides what is due. Rabid market capitalism and the terminal disease of Indian democracy dictate that students and their parents are "customers" to the university and its professors, and the customer is always right. Well, for starters, the customer <i>who pays</i> is always right, not freeloaders. Also, naturally the ones that call the shots over IIXs are not the freeloading customers, but the sugar-daddy MHRD led by malicious pricks whose only long term goal is to extend rent-seeking from every other public service to higher education.Ungrateful Alivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07536084262681072181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-44882684736852603732012-08-07T16:23:40.517+05:302012-08-07T16:23:40.517+05:30Let me ask some questions. I don't really have...Let me ask some questions. I don't really have answers for these.<br /><br />What is the purpose of universities? Do they "owe" anything to society? Do they owe anything to their students such as making sure that they will have jobs at the end of their studies (by training them only in fields that are likely to have jobs)?Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12623952900100926107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-47979121808936950932012-08-07T05:04:38.486+05:302012-08-07T05:04:38.486+05:30I don't see why, if UGs paying a fair share of...I don't see why, if UGs paying a fair share of the cost as fees, results in steps that lead to better IITs, it is unreasonable. Making anyone pay for anything that costs something is not a sin or a crime. In fact not making them pay is stupid.Ankur Kulkarnihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16411971742511540520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-52906224951153556602012-08-06T12:50:09.230+05:302012-08-06T12:50:09.230+05:30I don't find the article unreasonable. If you ...I don't find the article unreasonable. If you are worried about social justice and inclusion, that fight starts much earlier, and very far from IIXs. The government and Kakodkar may not know best how to fix IIXs, but most will agree that IIXs need fixed. Undergraduate commitment and application to the program is lower than ever, and postgraduate education is as remedial as ever. With the possible exception of IISc hardly any IIX has a healthy PhD culture in engineering. What's to like in this story?Ungrateful Alivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07536084262681072181noreply@blogger.com